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And that’s a reality Australia hopes to capitalize on, Western Australia’s Minister for Agriculture and Food Ken Baston said in an interview.

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Aman, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, complains that high beef prices are scaring customers away.

It would like to near double its cattle sales to 500,000 to a country that cut back on its Australian imports amid a bid for more self sufficiency and a backlash over Australian charges of animal cruelty at Indonesian slaughterhouses. Read More »

Airline pilots are trained for a vast range of emergencies, but almost nothing could have prepared the crew of a Lion Air domestic flight for what they saw on the runway just moments after touchdown at the Gorontalo airport in Indonesia Tuesday night — a herd of cows.

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The aircraft — a Boeing 737 twinjet operating as Lion flight 892 — originated from Jakarta with 110 passengers and collided with at least one of the cows on the runway, damaging its landing gear and brakes. The plane then veered off the runway and its front wheels came to rest on soft mud.

Two passengers were slightly injured as they evacuated from the plane. They were able to leave hospital after treatment, according to Lion Air’s spokesman Leithen Francis. One cow, however, was killed. Read More »

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